 | Joseph Ritson - English poetry - 1829 - 346 pages
...with mickle pride, The spears to shivers sent. They clos'd full fast on every side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping...it was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear The cries of men lying in their gore, And scatter'd here and there. 120 At last these two stout earls did... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - Ballads, English - 1829 - 460 pages
...with mickle pride, The spears to shivers sent. They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping...it was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear The cries of men lying in their gore, And scattered here and there. At last these two stout Earls did meet,... | |
 | John Pendleton Kennedy - Albemarle County (Va.) - 1835
...CHAPTER XXXII. THE BATTLE OF KMG's MOUNTAIN. They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. O dread! it was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear The cries of men lying in their gore And scattered... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1841 - 440 pages
...engaged in close contest with sword and axe. " The battle closed on every side, No slackness there was found, And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. O, but it was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear The cries of men lying in their gore, And scatter'd... | |
 | Richard John King - Ballads, English - 1842 - 352 pages
...heavy shower, On shields and helmets light. They closed full fast on everye side, Noe slacknes there was found, And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. O Christ ! it was a griefe to see And likewise for to heare, The cries of men lying in their gore, And scattered here and... | |
 | Barbara Hofland - 1843 - 974 pages
...unperceived to her cell. VOL. I. CHAPTER III. They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. CHEVY CHASE. MIDNIGHT is a fearful season. He of the scythe, whose heavy footsteps are hours, then... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Stewart - 1843 - 366 pages
...in their gore. And scattered here and there. They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found, And many a gallant gentleman, Lay gasping on the ground. CUEVT CHASE. IT was a sharp morning at the end of January, and a sunbeam as bright, though not as fervid,... | |
 | Sir Henry Cole - Archers - 1844 - 70 pages
...shower, On shields and helmets light.] They closed full fast on every side, 125 No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping...! It was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear, 130 The cries of men lying in their gore, And scattered here and there. At last these two stout earls... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1844 - 858 pages
...mickle might Their speres to shivers went. They clos'd full fast on every side, Noe slacknes there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. O Christ ! it was a griefe to see, And likewise for to heare, The cries of men lying in their gore, And scattered here... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - Ballads, English - 1844 - 178 pages
...heavy shower, On shields and helmets light. They closed full fast on everye side, Noe slacknes there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. O Christ ! it was a griefe to see, How each one chose his spere, And how the blood out of their brests Did gush like water... | |
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They clos'd full fast on every side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. 
